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I'm off Monday and Tuesday. Going to a party tonight, hosting a party all day tomorrow, going to another party on Sunday, hanging out with my brother on Monday, then doing the family stuff on Tuesday.

The week of New Years is when I burn the vacation time. Probably be spending a lot of it playing Rock Band with a few of my wife's cousins and watching entirely too much anime.

Guitar Hero 3 is great. I've been playing it a lot over the past couple of months.

My wife and I gave ourselves a 47" LCD HDTV last month thanks to a good sale the weekend after Christmas, so we were done with gifts to each other well before Christmas. Hardly anyone knows what to get for me, so the usual from friends are gift cards and cash. Just need to decide if I feel like braving the shoppers today or waiting for some time in the future. Rock Band is high on my list of desirable things, but so are Haze, Unreal Tournament 3, a wireless router, some stuff for the PSP (notably a 4GB or larger memory stick and the game Jeanne D'Arc), a few Blu-ray movies, and GTA IV if I can wait that long.

Yay on the PSP, Yusaku. You'll love it. Using remote play to stream audio/video via your PS3 is sweet and saves storage on the PSP, plus you can play PS1 titles. The 2.10 firmware update for the PS3 allowed remote play to work with PS1 titles if you have the original game disc in your PS3. I like getting retro and firing up stuff like Williams Arcade Classics on occasion, and now that I can do that on the PSP while my wife is watching TV, I think that's pretty neat.

You can't stream copy protected video files, even if they're stored locally on the PS3 hard drive. So you probably can't do DVDs or Blu-ray for the same reason, likely a silly DRM issue.

You CAN stream audio/video from a media server to the PS3 and then play the transcoded files via the PSP, but you want to be sure the PS3 is on a wired connection for that. Video gets pretty choppy if it's going out of the PS3 via wireless as well as going into the PSP via wireless, much less using wireless for whatever media server you might set up. Audio is no problem due to the lower bandwidth. And as I assume you got one of the slims, you can purchase a component cable designed just for the PSP slim to allow 480p output to a TV. So I can haul the PSP to my brother's house, plug it into his TV, and stream a video from the PS3 at my house 20 miles away.

I must admit that Renegade Squadron is great mindless fun. And being able to do nifty audio/video things as well like streaming to a TV in a remote location just makes my inner nerd squeal with joy.

Oh, and my PSN ID is Alindawyl. I leave the PS3 on so am always logged in. You're most likely to see me playing Guitar Hero 3 if I'm around, although I do play a good bit of Resistance and Oblivion as the mood strikes me. I *will* finish Oblivion before the summer!